• Kimberley Central Diamond Mining Company (South African company)

    Barney Barnato: 
other companies to form the Kimberley Central Diamond Mining Company, which, along with the Compagnie Française des Mines de Diamant du Cap, seriously challenged Cecil Rhodes’s De Beers Mining Company (see De Beers S.A.).

  • Kimberley Mine (mining site, Kimberley, South Africa)

    Big Hole, a large, defunct, open-pit diamond mine located in present-day Kimberley, South Africa. Considered to be the largest hand-excavated hole in the world and one of the deepest, it has a circumference of about 1 mile (1.6 km) and a diameter of roughly 1,500 feet (460 meters). The Big Hole

  • Kimberley Plateau (region, Australia)

    Kimberley, plateau region of northern Western Australia, extending from the rugged northwest Indian Ocean coast south to the Fitzroy River and east to the Ord River. The plateau has an area of about 162,000 square miles (420,000 square km). It is composed chiefly of sandstone with patches of basalt

  • Kimberley Process (diamond certification)

    Kimberley Process, a certification scheme, active since 2003, that attempts to halt the trade in so-called blood diamonds (rough diamonds sold to finance civil wars) and to protect the legitimate diamond trade. It has 49 participants (48 individual states plus the 27-member European Union), which

  • Kimberley Science and Conservation Strategy (Australian program)

    Australia: Conservation: The Western Australian government’s Kimberley Science and Conservation Strategy provided funding for scientific research that supports the management of these protected areas and for the creation of new parks jointly managed by Aboriginal groups. Among the land management practices employed is controlled burning along with feral animal and weed


  • Kimberley-Elsburg Series (geology)

    Witwatersrand System: 
Main-Bird Series, followed by the Kimberley-Elsburg Series. The Government Reef Series consists of alternating shales and quartzites in addition to pebbly layers that contain gold deposits; it also contains indications of a period of extensive glaciation. The most economically important series is the Main-Bird Series, largely quartzitic conglomerates that are


  • Kimberleys (region, Australia)

    Kimberley, plateau region of northern Western Australia, extending from the rugged northwest Indian Ocean coast south to the Fitzroy River and east to the Ord River. The plateau has an area of about 162,000 square miles (420,000 square km). It is composed chiefly of sandstone with patches of basalt

  • kimberlite (rock)

    kimberlite, a dark-coloured, heavy, often altered and brecciated (fragmented), intrusive igneous rock that contains diamonds in its rock matrix. It has a porphyritic texture, with large, often rounded crystals (phenocrysts) surrounded by a fine-grained matrix (groundmass). It is a mica peridotite,

  • kimberlite eruption (volcanism)

    kimberlite eruption, small but powerful volcanic eruption caused by the rapid ascent of kimberlites—a type of intrusive igneous rock originating in the asthenosphere—through the lithosphere and onto the surface of the Earth. Kimberlites are thought to rise through a series of fissures in the rock.

  • Kimberly-Clark Corporation (American corporation)

    Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB) is a U.S.-based maker of personal care and household products best known for products such as Huggies, Kleenex, Cottonelle, Scott, and Kotex. Founded in 1872 as a paper goods company in Neenah, Wisconsin, Kimberly-Clark has grown into a global business with products

  • Kimble, Gregory Adams (American psychologist)

    learning theory: Kimble may be considered representative: Learning is a relatively permanent change in a behavioral potentiality that occurs as a result of reinforced practice. Although the definition is useful, it still leaves problems.

  • Kimbolton of Kimbolton, Edward Montagu, Baron (British general)

    Edward Montagu, 2nd earl of Manchester was a Parliamentarian general in the English Civil Wars. Son of the 1st earl, Henry Montagu, he was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He sat in Parliament from 1624 to 1626 and in the latter year was raised to the peerage as Baron Kimbolton, but he

  • Kimbrough, David (American musician)

    Mississippi Delta blues: From World War II into the 21st century: Burnside (1926–2005), David (“Junior”) Kimbrough (1930–98), and the North Mississippi Allstars—showed clear stylistic connections to the Delta tradition and, in the case of the latter group, updated this legacy with an intermixing of rock and informal jam band influences. Other contemporary artists to have drawn on the


  • Kimbrough, Junior (American musician)

    Mississippi Delta blues: From World War II into the 21st century: Burnside (1926–2005), David (“Junior”) Kimbrough (1930–98), and the North Mississippi Allstars—showed clear stylistic connections to the Delta tradition and, in the case of the latter group, updated this legacy with an intermixing of rock and informal jam band influences. Other contemporary artists to have drawn on the


  • Kimbu (people)

    eastern Africa: Pressure on the southern chieftainships: 
rulership; and also among the Kimbu, where, between 1870 and 1884, Nyungu and his ruga-rugas (or bands of warriors) created a dominion that survived his death.

  • Kimbundu (people)

    Mbundu, second largest ethnolinguistic group of Angola, comprising a diversity of peoples who speak Kimbundu, a Bantu language. Numbering about 2,420,000 in the late 20th century, they occupy much of north-central Angola and live in the area from the coastal national capital of Luanda eastward,

  • Kimbundu language

    Angola: Cultural milieu: 
stature who resided locally spoke Kimbundu, often in preference to Portuguese. In the 19th century the Luanda elite embraced both Kimbundu and Portuguese culture and language and valued their blended nature, and the eventual cessation of Kimbundu as the language of the elite did not occur until after 1910. In


  • Kimch’aek (North Korea)

    Kimch’aek, city, North HamgyƏng do (province), eastern North Korea. It is on the estuary of the Namdae River, along the East Sea (Sea of Japan). Protected by promontories, it has a good natural harbour and is a port city. Formerly a poor fishing village, it began to develop when it became an open

  • Kimch’Ən (South Korea)

    Gimcheon, city, North Gyeongsang do (province), south-central South Korea. It lies about 40 miles (65 km) northwest of Daegu. During the Joseon (Yi) dynasty (1392–1910) the city was one of the most important market towns of the country. It is now a service center for the surrounding area. Gimcheon

  • kimchee (food)

    kimchi, spicy, fermented dish that generally accompanies a Korean meal. The vegetables most commonly used in its preparation are cucumber, daikon (a type of radish), and napa cabbage, a variant of Chinese cabbage that is known internationally as kimchi cabbage. The prepared vegetables are sliced,

  • kimchi (food)

    kimchi, spicy, fermented dish that generally accompanies a Korean meal. The vegetables most commonly used in its preparation are cucumber, daikon (a type of radish), and napa cabbage, a variant of Chinese cabbage that is known internationally as kimchi cabbage. The prepared vegetables are sliced,

  • Kimchi, David (European scholar)

    David Kimhi was a European scholar of the Hebrew language whose writings on Hebrew lexicography and grammar became standard works in the Middle Ages and whose reputation eclipsed that of both his father, Joseph Kimhi, and his brother, Moses, a grammarian. As a boy David Kimhi learned his father’s

  • Kimchi, Joseph (European grammarian)

    Joseph Kimhi was a European grammarian, biblical exegete, and poet who, with his sons, Moses and David, made fundamental contributions to establishing Hebrew-language studies. Through his many translations into Hebrew of works written in Arabic by Spanish Jews, Kimhi came to play a principal part

  • Kimchi, Moses (European scholar)

    Moses Kimhi was a European author of an influential Hebrew grammar, Mahalakh shevile ha-daÊżat (“Journey on the Paths of Knowledge”). The elder son of the grammarian and biblical exegete Joseph Kimhi and teacher of his more renowned brother, David Kimhi, he shared with them the accomplishment of

  • Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents (law case)

    Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on January 11, 2000, struck down (5–4) a 1974 amendment to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) of 1967 that abrogated the general immunity of states under the Eleventh Amendment to lawsuits by individuals to

  • Kimen (work by Vesaas)

    Tarjei Vesaas: 
awareness mark his Kimen (1940; The Seed), which shows how hatred is stirred up by mass psychology, and Huset i mþrkret (1945; “House in Darkness”), a symbolic vision of the Nazi occupation of Norway. Fuglane (1957; The Birds), considered his greatest work (and later filmed), pleads for tolerance toward the


  • Kimetsu no yaiba (Japanese manga series)

    Demon Slayer, manga series by an artist under the pen name Gotouge Koyoharu. Serialized in the Japanese manga magazine Weekly Shƍnen Jump from 2016 to 2020, Demon Slayer (Japanese: Kimetsu no yaiba [“Blade of Demon Destruction”]) follows Kamado Tanjiro, a boy who joins a secret corps of warriors to

  • Kimhi, David (European scholar)

    David Kimhi was a European scholar of the Hebrew language whose writings on Hebrew lexicography and grammar became standard works in the Middle Ages and whose reputation eclipsed that of both his father, Joseph Kimhi, and his brother, Moses, a grammarian. As a boy David Kimhi learned his father’s

  • Kimáž„i, Joseph (European grammarian)

    Joseph Kimhi was a European grammarian, biblical exegete, and poet who, with his sons, Moses and David, made fundamental contributions to establishing Hebrew-language studies. Through his many translations into Hebrew of works written in Arabic by Spanish Jews, Kimhi came to play a principal part

  • Kimhi, Joseph (European grammarian)

    Joseph Kimhi was a European grammarian, biblical exegete, and poet who, with his sons, Moses and David, made fundamental contributions to establishing Hebrew-language studies. Through his many translations into Hebrew of works written in Arabic by Spanish Jews, Kimhi came to play a principal part

  • Kimhi, Moses (European scholar)

    Moses Kimhi was a European author of an influential Hebrew grammar, Mahalakh shevile ha-daÊżat (“Journey on the Paths of Knowledge”). The elder son of the grammarian and biblical exegete Joseph Kimhi and teacher of his more renowned brother, David Kimhi, he shared with them the accomplishment of

  • KIMI (film by Soderbergh [2022])

    Steven Soderbergh: Later credits: In 2022 he helmed KIMI, a thriller about an agoraphobic tech analyst who believes she has heard a violent crime. The following year Soderbergh returned to the world of male strippers with Magic Mike’s Last Dance, which starred Channing Tatum and Salma Hayek. In Presence (2024), a haunted-house thriller,


  • Kimi no na wa (film by Oba [1953])

    Shƍchiku Co., Ltd.: The company did produce, however, Kimi no na wa (1953–54; “What Is Your Name?”), the most lucrative film in postwar Japan. The profits were used to modernize the studio and to establish the Shƍchiku Motion Picture Science Institute, which took as its object of study the technical challenges of filmmaking.


  • KÄ«miya-yi saÊżÄdat (work by al-GhazālÄ«)

    Persian literature: Classical prose: The KÄ«miya-yi saÊżÄdat (after 1096; The Alchemy of Happiness) by the theologian and mystic al-GhazālÄ«, for instance, is one such work: it is a condensed version of the author’s own work in Arabic on Islamic ethics, the Iáž„yāʟ ÊżulĆ«m al-dÄ«n (The Revival of Religious Sciences). Written in a lively conversational


  • kimkhwāb (cloth)

    kimkhwāb, Indian brocade woven of silk and gold or silver thread. The word kimkhwāb, derived from the Persian, means “a little dream,” a reference perhaps to the intricate patterns employed; kimkhwāb also means “woven flower,” an interpretation that appears more applicable to the brocade, in view

  • Kimmel, Husband Edward (United States Navy officer)

    Pearl Harbor attack: Warnings and responses: Husband E. Kimmel and Lieut. Gen. Walter C. Short, who shared command at Pearl Harbor, were warned of the possibility of war, specifically on October 16 and again on November 24 and 27. The notice of November 27, to Kimmel, began, “This dispatch is to


  • Kimmel, James Christian (American talk-show host, producer, and comedian)

    Jimmy Kimmel is an American late-night talk-show personality, producer, and comedian best known as the host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003– ). He also is a frequent host of various award ceremonies. In 2025, he was briefly taken off the air after comments he made about the assassination of

  • Kimmel, Jimmy (American talk-show host, producer, and comedian)

    Jimmy Kimmel is an American late-night talk-show personality, producer, and comedian best known as the host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003– ). He also is a frequent host of various award ceremonies. In 2025, he was briefly taken off the air after comments he made about the assassination of

  • Kimmelstiel-Wilson disease (medical disorder)

    diabetic nephropathy, deterioration of kidney function occurring as a complication of diabetes mellitus. The condition is characterized primarily by increased urinary excretion of the protein albumin, increased blood pressure, and reduced glomerular filtration rate (the average rate at which wastes

  • Kimmerer, Robin Wall (Potawatomi writer and scientist)

    Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, writer, and plant ecologist perhaps best known for her book of essays Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (2013). She holds appointments as a distinguished teaching professor and as a founding director of the

  • Kimmeridgian Stage (stratigraphy)

    Kimmeridgian Stage, middle of three divisions of the Upper Jurassic Series, representing all rocks formed worldwide during the Kimmeridgian Age, which occurred between 157.3 million and 152.1 million years ago during the Jurassic Period. The Kimmeridgian Stage overlies the Oxfordian Stage and

  • kimono (clothing)

    kimono, garment worn by Japanese men and women from the Hakuhƍ (Early Nara) period (645–710) to the present. Derived from the Chinese pao-style robe, the essential kimono is an ankle-length gown with long, expansive sleeves and a V-neck. It has neither buttons nor ties, being lapped left over right

  • Kimpech (Mexico)

    Campeche, city, port on the Gulf of Mexico, and capital of Campeche estado (state), southeastern Mexico. It lies on the YucatĂĄn Peninsula at the western end of a fertile plain in a natural amphitheatre formed by hills overlooking the Bay of Campeche. The Spanish town was founded in 1540 on the site

  • Kimry (Russia)

    Kimry, city and centre of a rayon (sector), Tver oblast (region), western Russia. The old part of the city, situated on the high left (west) bank of the Volga River, is a centre of traditional handicrafts, especially of leatherworking, shoes, and hosiery. Kimry, a river port, was incorporated in

  • Kimura, Ren (Japanese physician)

    dengue: Dengue through history: 
Japanese physicians Susumu Hotta and Ren Kimura and by American microbiologist Albert Bruce Sabin.

  • Kimvita (dialect)

    Swahili language: 
the mainland areas of Tanzania; kiMvita (or Kimvita), spoken in Mombasa and other areas of Kenya; and kiAmu (or Kiamu), spoken on the island of Lamu and adjoining parts of the coast. Standard Swahili is based on the kiUnguja dialect.

  • kin (musical instrument)

    koto, long Japanese board zither having 13 silk strings and movable bridges. The body of the instrument is made of paulownia wood and is about 190 cm (74 inches) long. When the performer is kneeling or seated on the floor, the koto is held off the floor by two legs or a bridge-storage box; in most

  • kin

    kinship, system of social organization based on real or putative family ties. The modern study of kinship can be traced back to mid-19th-century interests in comparative legal institutions and philology. In the late 19th century, however, the cross-cultural comparison of kinship institutions became

  • kin altruism (behavior)

    kin selection, a type of natural selection that considers the role relatives play when evaluating the genetic fitness of a given individual. It is based on the concept of inclusive fitness, which is made up of individual survival and reproduction (direct fitness) and any impact that an individual

  • Kin dynasty (China [221–207 bce])

    Qin dynasty, dynasty that established the first great Chinese empire. The Qin—which lasted only from 221 to 207 bce but from which the name China is derived—established the approximate boundaries and basic administrative system that all subsequent Chinese dynasties were to follow for the next two

  • kin recognition (behavior)

    animal social behavior: The proximate mechanisms of social behavior: Kin recognition systems also play a role in contexts where it pays to favor close over distant kin. The three mechanisms of kin recognition are the use of environmental cues, prior experience, and phenotype matching (that is, looking or smelling right). Examples can be found


  • kin selection (behavior)

    kin selection, a type of natural selection that considers the role relatives play when evaluating the genetic fitness of a given individual. It is based on the concept of inclusive fitness, which is made up of individual survival and reproduction (direct fitness) and any impact that an individual

  • Kin-kang (Buddhist mythological figure)

    Vajrapāáč‡i, in Mahāyāna Buddhist mythology, one of the celestial bodhisattvas (“Buddhas-to-be”), the manifestation of the self-born Buddha AkáčŁobhya. Vajrapāáč‡i (Sanskrit: Thunderbolt-Bearer) is believed to be the protector of the nāgas (half-man, half-serpent deities) and sometimes assumes the shape

  • Kinabalu, Mount (mountain, Malaysia)

    Mount Kinabalu, the highest peak in Malaysia and the Malay Archipelago, rising to 13,435 feet (4,095 metres). It is located on the island of Borneo in Sabah state in Malaysia. It is the third highest peak on an island on Earth, after Puncak Jaya in New Guinea and Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Lying near the

  • Kinabatangan River (river, Malaysia)

    Kinabatangan River, longest river in northeastern East Malaysia (North Borneo). It rises in the eastern Witti Range, where it begins its 350-mile (563-kilometre) northeasterly course. Traversing for the most part a broad, heavily forested plain, the river culminates in a wide delta at the Sulu Sea

  • kinaesthetic sense (sensory phenomenon)

    human sensory reception: Kinesthetic (motion) sense: Even with the eyes closed, one is aware of the positions of his legs and arms and can perceive the movement of a limb and its direction. The term kinesthesis (“feeling of motion”) has been coined for this sensibility.

  • Kinai (Japanese dialect)

    Japan: Languages: 
a vigorous influx of the Kamigata (Kinai) subdialect, which was the foundation of standard Japanese. Among the Western subdialects, the Kinki version was long the standard language of Japan, although the present Kamigata subdialect of the Kyƍto-ƌsaka region is of relatively recent origin. The Kyushu subdialects have been placed outside


  • Kinanah (Arabian tribe)

    Kindah: Taghlib, Qays, and Kinānah—each led by a Kindah prince. The tribes feuded constantly, and, after about the middle of the 6th century, the Kindah princes were forced by the local tribesmen to withdraw once more to southern Arabia.

  • kinase (enzyme)

    kinase, an enzyme that adds phosphate groups (PO43−) to other molecules. A large number of kinases exist—the human genome contains at least 500 kinase-encoding genes. Included among these enzymes’ targets for phosphate group addition (phosphorylation) are proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids. For

  • Kincaid, Jamaica (Caribbean American author)

    Jamaica Kincaid is a Caribbean American writer whose essays, stories, and novels are lyrical, evocative portrayals of family relationships and her native Antigua. Other notable themes in her work include feminism, postcolonialism, and gardening. Born Elaine Potter Richardson, she was raised by her

  • Kincardine (former county, Scotland, United Kingdom)

    Kincardineshire, historic county in northeastern Scotland, along the North Sea coast south of Aberdeen. It is part of the Aberdeenshire council area. Kincardine is the southernmost of the historic counties of northeastern Scotland. In ancient times it marked the northern limit of the brief Roman

  • Kincardine, 11th earl of (British diplomat)

    Thomas Bruce, 7th earl of Elgin was a British diplomatist and art collector, famous for his acquisition of the Greek sculptures now known as the “Elgin Marbles.” The third son of Charles Bruce, the 5th earl (1732–71), Elgin succeeded his brother William Robert, the 6th earl, in 1771 at the age of

  • Kincardine, 12th earl of (British statesman)

    James Bruce, 8th earl of Elgin was a British statesman and governor general of British North America in 1847–54 who effected responsible, or cabinet, government in Canada and whose conduct in office defined the role for his successors. Bruce had been elected to the British House of Commons for

  • Kincardineshire (former county, Scotland, United Kingdom)

    Kincardineshire, historic county in northeastern Scotland, along the North Sea coast south of Aberdeen. It is part of the Aberdeenshire council area. Kincardine is the southernmost of the historic counties of northeastern Scotland. In ancient times it marked the northern limit of the brief Roman

  • Kinchinjunga (mountain, Asia)

    Kanchenjunga, world’s third highest mountain, with an elevation of 28,169 feet (8,586 metres). It is situated in the eastern Himalayas on the border between Sikkim state, northeastern India, and eastern Nepal, 46 miles (74 km) north-northwest of Darjiling, Sikkim. The mountain is part of the Great

  • Kinchow (southern Liaoning, China)

    Jinzhou, former town, southern Liaoning sheng (province), China. Now administratively a district under the city of Dalian, it is situated on Jinzhou Bay, a part of the Bo Hai (Gulf of Chihli), and on the neck of the Liaodong Peninsula immediately northeast of Dalian. Jinzhou is an important

  • KinchĆ« Narabi ni Kuge Shohatto (Japanese history)

    Japan: The establishment of the system: 
Imperial and Court Officials (Kinchƫ Narabi ni Kuge Shohatto) were promulgated as the legal basis for bakufu control of the daimyo and the imperial court. In 1616 Ieyasu died, the succession already having been established.

  • Kinck, Hans E. (Norwegian writer)

    Hans E. Kinck was a prolific Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, essayist, and Neoromanticist whose works reflect his preoccupation with the past and his lifelong interest in national psychology and creative genius. The son of a physician and a peasant’s daughter, Kinck spent many

  • Kinck, Hans Ernst (Norwegian writer)

    Hans E. Kinck was a prolific Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, essayist, and Neoromanticist whose works reflect his preoccupation with the past and his lifelong interest in national psychology and creative genius. The son of a physician and a peasant’s daughter, Kinck spent many

  • Kincsem (racehorse)

    Kincsem, (foaled 1874), European racehorse whose total of 54 victories (1876–79) without defeat was into the 1980s the best unbeaten record in the history of flat (Thoroughbred) racing. A mare sired by Cambuscan out of Water Nymph (both English-bred horses), she was foaled in Hungary and raced in

  • Kind and Knox Gelatine Company (American company)

    Rose Markward Knox: 
vice president of the reorganized Kind and Knox Gelatine Company. She built a new plant in Camden to produce flavoured gelatin in 1936. Her treatment of employees was notably brisk and fair, and they were remarkably loyal to the firm. The Knox company remained the leading manufacturer and distributor of


  • Kind Hearts and Coronets (film by Hamer [1949])

    Kind Hearts and Coronets, British comedy, released in 1949, that came to be recognized as one of the best British films of all time. It was noted for its dark humour and for the performance of Alec Guinness, who played eight characters. Ruthlessly ambitious aristocrat Louis Mazzini (played by

  • Kind Lady (film by Sturges [1951])

    John Sturges: Bad, Magnificent, and Great: Kind Lady (1951) was a period suspense film, in which Ethel Barrymore portrayed an elderly art lover who is held prisoner in her home as a group of thieves (Maurice Evans and Angela Lansbury, among others) plot to steal her collection. The People Against O’Hara


  • Kind of Blue (work by Davis)

    John Coltrane: phase” albums Milestones (1958) and Kind of Blue (1959), both considered essential examples of 1950s modern jazz. (Davis at this point was experimenting with modes—i.e., scale patterns other than major and minor.) His work on these recordings was always proficient and often brilliant, though relatively subdued and cautious.

  • Kind of Loving, A (novel by Barstow)

    Stan Barstow: 
success of his first book, A Kind of Loving (1960; film 1962; stage play 1970) enabled him to write full-time. The novel takes a frank look at a working-class man caught in an unhappy marriage. Barstow was among a group of young British writers (including Alan Sillitoe and John Braine)


  • Kind of Loving, A (film by Schlesinger [1962])

    John Schlesinger: British films: His first feature, A Kind of Loving (1962), was a low-key but effective exercise in the “kitchen-sink” school of drama that was grounded in working-class characters, industrial locales in northern England, and naturalistic performances, filmed with gritty cinematography. Alan Bates starred as draughtsman who struggles with the responsibilities


  • Kind of Scar, A (work by Boland)

    Eavan Boland: A Kind of Scar (1989) is Boland’s prose study of female Irish poets. She also coauthored (with Micheál Mac Liammóir) a biography of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats entitled W.B. Yeats and His World (1998). A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming A Woman Poet


  • kind, consciousness of (sociology)

    Franklin H. Giddings: 
his doctrine of the “consciousness of kind,” which he derived from Adam Smith’s conception of “sympathy,” or shared moral reactions. In Giddings’s view, consciousness of kind fostered a homogeneous society and resulted from the interaction of individuals and their exposure to common stimuli. Some critics regarded consciousness of kind


  • Kind, Johann Friedrich (German writer)

    Der FreischĂŒtz: Its German libretto by Johann Friedrich Kind is based on a story by Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun. The opera premiered in Berlin on June 18, 1821.

  • Kind, Phyllis (American art dealer)

    Roger Brown: A Chicago Imagist: In 1970 Chicago art dealer Phyllis Kind began representing Brown, and she gave him his first solo show at her gallery in 1971. Soon after, art critic Franz Schulze, who coined the term imagists for the SAIC-schooled group, included Brown in his book Fantastic Images: Chicago Art Since 1945 (1972),


  • Kindah (people)

    Kindah, ancient Arabian tribe that was especially prominent during the late 5th and 6th centuries ad, when it made one of the first attempts in central Arabia to unite various tribes around a central authority. The Kindah originated in the area west of កaឍramawt in southern Arabia. At the end of

  • Kindal Savara (people)

    Savara: 
Muli, workers in iron; the Kindal, basket makers; and the Kumbi, potters. The traditional social unit is the extended family, including both males and females descended from a common male ancestor.

  • kindami (Japanese art)

    fundamiji, in Japanese lacquerwork, variation of the jimaki technique. In this kind of ground decoration, a thick layer of fine gold or silver grains is dusted onto a freshly lacquered surface and, when dry, covered with a clear lacquer. After this has dried, it is polished with powdered charcoal

  • Kindat al-MulĆ«k (people)

    Kindah, ancient Arabian tribe that was especially prominent during the late 5th and 6th centuries ad, when it made one of the first attempts in central Arabia to unite various tribes around a central authority. The Kindah originated in the area west of កaឍramawt in southern Arabia. At the end of

  • kinde (musical instrument)

    African music: Harps: (Uganda), ardin (Mauritania), kinde (Lake Chad region), and ngombi (Gabon).

  • Kindelberger, Dutch (American aircraft designer)

    P-51: 
designer of North American Aviation, J.H. (“Dutch”) Kindelberger, to design a fighter from the ground up rather than produce another fighter, the Curtiss P-40, under license. The result was a trim low-wing monoplane powered by a liquid-cooled in-line Allison engine. Other fighters powered by non-turbo-supercharged Allisons, notably the P-40 and


  • Kindelberger, J. H. (American aircraft designer)

    P-51: 
designer of North American Aviation, J.H. (“Dutch”) Kindelberger, to design a fighter from the ground up rather than produce another fighter, the Curtiss P-40, under license. The result was a trim low-wing monoplane powered by a liquid-cooled in-line Allison engine. Other fighters powered by non-turbo-supercharged Allisons, notably the P-40 and


  • Kindell, Ty (American musician)

    X: 
25, 1953, Decatur, Illinois), guitarist Billy Zoom (original name Ty Kindell; b. February 20, 1948, Savanna, Illinois), and drummer D.J. Bonebrake (b. December 8, 1955, North Hollywood, California). Later members included Dave Alvin (b. November 11, 1955, Los Angeles, California) and Tony Gilkyson.

  • Kinder- und HausmĂ€rchen (work by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm)

    Grimm’s Fairy Tales, classic and influential collection of folklore by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, first published in two volumes as Kinder- und HausmĂ€rchen (1812–15; “Children’s and Household Tales”) and later revised and enlarged seven times between 1819 and 1857. The work was first translated into

  • KinderCare Education (American company)

    Michael Milken: He founded Knowledge Universe, Inc., a consumer and business education company, in 1996. In 1998, without admitting guilt, Milken returned $47 million in earnings after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged that he had violated the 1990 order barring him from doing business in the securities


  • kindergarten (educational division)

    kindergarten, educational division, a supplement to elementary school intended to accommodate children between the ages of four and six years. Originating in the early 19th century, the kindergarten was an outgrowth of the ideas and practices of Robert Owen in Great Britain, J.H. Pestalozzi in

  • Kindergarten Cop (film by Reitman [1990])

    Angela Bassett: 
attendant in the action comedy Kindergarten Cop (1990).

  • Kindergarten Teacher, The (film by Colangelo [2018])

    Gael García Bernal: 
included a poetry instructor in The Kindergarten Teacher, an artless thief who breaks into Mexico City’s National Museum of Anthropology in Museo, and a talk show host in Acusada (The Accused). Among García Bernal’s credits the following year were Ema, about a couple struggling after a failed adoption, and Wasp


  • Kinderhookian Series (geology)

    Carboniferous Period: Mississippian subsystem: The Kinderhookian Series includes the Hannibal Formation and the Chouteau Group. It is succeeded by the Osagean Series, which includes the Burlington Limestone and overlying Keokuk Limestone. The Meramecan and Chesterian series overlie previous layers. Other well-known Mississippian units in North America include: the Pocono Group


  • Kinderlieb, Heinrich (German physician and writer)

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